Today has been a more productive day for me after a night of little sleep. I finally gave up sleeping around 3:00 and got up and made a batch of oatmeal raisin cookies for Tim. When I was done cleaning up the kitchen after making the cookies I went back to bed and found two hours of sleep. I’m tired this afternoon but decided to power through it and hope I can sleep tonight.
This morning I took the cookies to Tim, filled the car with gas, went to the bank, stopped at Bluestem and got a bigger watering can for the chickens and then went to Walmart for a few groceries. It was nice getting all my errands taken care of.
It rained on me for a hot minute while I was out and about but the wind blew the clouds away and by the time I got home there was only blue skies left. Oh so close to getting some rain but we didn’t get enough to count.
When I got home I went downstairs and cleaned a guest bathroom and bedroom. I have a friend that may be coming to spend the night tonight. I also got the hallway hand scrubbed. It was a bit of a mess downstairs due to the repair of the sheet rock. Still don’t have the woodwork trim up but it is what it is. It was nice to cross some more rooms off my deep cleaning list.
I didn’t find anything to throw away or to donate but I will keep looking. I have some totes of yarn to go through tonight if I get the urge and feel like throwing things out. I have to be in the right mood to do that and not sure I am there today.
Ellexia woke up without a temperature over 100 today for the first time since last Friday. She still is having some muscle pain in her legs but over all is recovering nicely from her bout with Covid. Fingers crossed her older brother doesn’t get it next. If she keeps her recovery up I bet she gets to go back to school next Monday.
My nephew let me know the new booster pump came in. Not sure when the plumber will come bring it out. Sure hope this one lasts a bit longer than the last one did.
I need to bake Jim some Snickerdoodles either tonight or tomorrow. I am out of them in the freezer. Good thing I like to bake cookies – I seem to end up doing it a lot.
Don’t think I have to go anywhere tomorrow so will get some more cleaning done. The house is starting to feel cleaner to me although I still have over half of it to do. Maybe tomorrow I can knock off most of the basement.
Thursday I have a dental cleaning at the Vo-Tech. I have to be there by 8:00 and she is expecting it to go into the afternoon. They are just starting this year off and are still slow. I sure hope she is better than the last one I had. Don’t think she can be worse.
Not sure if Jim is coming home Friday or Saturday. He has so much work to do in Stillwater he probably should stay most of the month of September and get lots done. We will see what he decides to do. We don’t have much going on here so it is a good time for him to be there working.
I noticed Chase County has six new Covid cases this week. Hope it isn’t hitting the school kids like it is in Emporia. Way too many are not vaccinated in Chase County and aren’t taking precautions. I don’t think the school kids here have to wear masks but I could be wrong. Not sure what it will take before people get with it and do the correct thing to protect themselves and their loved ones.
Grateful my errands got taken care of today, grateful Ellexia is improving daily, and grateful for the cleaning I got done today.